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IBM Rear Door Heat eXchanger

In the last 5 years the performance of servers and storage has increased exponentially. Along with this performance growth has come a significant increase in the power dissipated by the server and storage hardware. This has caused a significant strain on the infrastructure of data centers that were built for hardware power levels much less than what are being shipped today. The much higher rack power levels have caused customers to spread out their server products in order to cool them in the current facilities, using up valuable and expensive raised floor space. IBM anticipated this trend and developed The IBM Rear Door Heat eXchanger for IBM Enterprise Racks. This simple, cost effective, easily installable solution can save on valuable floor space, reduce the heat load to the data center environment and eliminate hot spots within the data center.

Designed to help increase computer capacity in your data center without increasing AC

The Rear Door Heat eXchanger's sealed coil design when filled with above dew-point, chilled water can passively remove up to 60% of the heat generated in a fully populated rack or up to 50,000 Btu.

IBM Acoustic Door for Enterprise Rack

Whether you are trying to address excessive noise levels in the datacenter or deploying a single rack in a particularly sensitive area, the IBM Acoustic Door for the 9308 Enterprise Rack can substantially reduce sound levels without impacting the cooling of your servers.

Door reduces sound levels by about ~6 decibels

~ 6 decibels or 6 dB(A) equals 0.6 bels. Sound volume/intensity doubles every time you increase by one bel (it is a logarithmic scale measurement)

Available for IBM enterprise 42U racks (93084RX and 93084XX)

Acoustic doors are deeper than the standard doors and have sound deadening properties. This adds about 7.5 inches (19.05 cm) to the front and back for a total depth of 15 inches(38.1 cm)

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